The Son of God will reform you and save you! Such thoughts and reflections as these naturally sprang up in my mind in my walks through Chinatown.

I saw its people on every hand.

Sometimes they were in twos, again in groups of a half a dozen or more.

They scarcely noticed us as we walked by them; they showed no curiosity to observe us, but went on their way as though intent on one object.

They moved about like automatons, as if they were a piece of machinery; and such as were at work in shops heeded us not even when we stood over them and watched them as they handled their tools.